Hook and eye.



Patented Aug. 5, |902.

C. E. DEVIN E. HUOK AND EYE. (Applicationl'ed Oct. 14, 1901. RenewedJune 27, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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4 TTnb STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. DEVINE, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO I. H.GOODALL, OF INDIANAPOLIS, lINDIANA.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 706,304, dated August5, 1902.

Application filed October 14, 1901. Renewed June 27, 1902. Serial No.113,398. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. DEVINE, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at Toledo, county of Lucas, and State of Ohio, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hooks and Eyes, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in hooks and eyes,and has for its object to provide a hook and eye in which the hook isinserted throughvthe eye at an angle and when the hook and eye arebrought parallel with one another the eye will engage the shouldersformed upon the hook, behind which it will be held, thus doing away withany lost motion, as is the ease with ordinary hooks and eyes, which willallow a dress to be iitted more tightly and also prevent the liabilityof the hook and eye becoming disengaged from one another accidentally.

Vith these ends in View this invention consists in the details ofconstruction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and thenspecifically designated by the claim.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this inventionappertains may understand how to make and use the same, the constructionand operation will now be described in detail, referring to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which-Figure l is a plan View of the hook and eye together; Fig. 2, a sideelevation of the same; Fig. 3, a plan view of the hook; Fig. 4, a planview of the eye.

In the drawings, A represents the eye,whieh is formed of a single pieceof wire, the wire being looped and the loop forming the eye B, one endof the wire being bent so as to 'form the eyelet D for securing the eyeto the garment, the other end of the wire being bent so as to form aloop E opposite the eyelet D, and then the wire passes back upon itselfand terminates about in the center of the eye B and passes through thethroat C just behind the eye B.

F is the hook, which is also formed of a single piece of wire, each endbeing bent to form the eyelets G :for securexnent to the garment and theloop of the wire forming the hook. 5o

The head H of the hook is arrow-shaped and is raised above the sidewires I, and thus the wire connecting the head H with the side wires Iforms the shoulders J, and this wire forming the shoulders as it passesfrom the head H to the side wires I inclines slightly inward toward thecenter for the purpose hereinafter described.

The extreme width of the head I-I is slightly smaller than the extremewidth of the eye B, and when it is desired to assemble the two the headII of the hook is passed through the eye, and they must necessarily beturned at an angle to one another to allow the head to pass the tongueK; but after the head H has passed through the eye the tension of thegarments will cause the hook and eye to be brought parallel to oneanother, the eye beingforced downward behind the shoulders J, and thusbe in a position that they can only be separated by reversing theoperation and causing them to assume an angular position to one another.The inward bend ofthe shoulders J will serve to better hold the eye uponthe hook.

I am aware that there have been patents issued for hooks and eyes inwhich thehook is inserted through the eye and the eye held againstwithdrawal by the width of the head of the hook being greater than thewidth of the eye; but the head of the hook is elliptical, and thereforeit must be inserted through the eye sidewise. This is detrimental and isalmost an impossibility to accomplish in tightfitting dresses, andanother disadvantage of this form of patent is that by a very littleside inclination of the book to the eye they will be separated.

In my invention the hook and eye necessarily have to be brought at aconsiderable angle to one another before the head of the hook can passthe end of the tongue K, but after passing said tongue they may bepressed together in a straight line with no sidewise motion, and as soonas the shoulders are reached will automatically lock themselves onaccount of the tension of the garment.

Of course I do not wish to be limited to the exact construction hereshown, as slight modications could be made without departing from thespirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and usefulis- As a new article of manufacture, a hook and eye consisting of a hookmade of a single piece of wire, eyelets formed in each end of the wire,a head formed by the loop of the wire, said head being raised above theside wires, the connection between the head and the side wires formingshoulders, an`eye composed of a single piece of wire, an eyelet D formedin one end of the wire, an eye B formed by the loop of the wire, athroat C formed by bending the wire inward behind the eye, al

CHARLES E. DEVINE,

Witnesses:

J No. W. ENRIGHT, MINNIE NOBLEu

